Sean Flinn

“You see the cardinal at the feeder, and now you’re going to know that the red colour in the feathers have carotenoids in them and that’s signalling the male’s health,” says Bridget Stutchbury, an internationally renowned ornithologist, of the kind of knowledge she hopes readers gain from her new book, The Bird Detective. The male […]

Before blogs there were zines. The two co-exist today. Blogs seem highly specific, newsy, opinionated. Zines reflect opinions, passions and zinesters build arguments, though they come across as less argumentative—more reflective, evocative of a longer-term universal condition. They’re generalists and necessary ones at that. Jeff Miller is a great example. In 1996, at 16 and […]

Two ringed coffee stains collide on the book’s front cover. The contact causes an explosion, a darker drop with squibs. On a stark white background, these rust-hued circles express the thrust of McCartney’s work: opposing emotional spheres may well overlap to form a new state of mind and of the heart. The duality of push […]

Drew Hayden Taylor excels at tension, building it from the moment a stranger named John arrives on a vintage Indian Chief bike. He rolls into the Anishnawbe community of Otter Lake to keep a longheld promise to a now-dying elder. Taylor playfully creates his anti-hero, who’s young, old, wise and wild all at once. He […]